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Letter from the Editor
Journal of the ACMS, 2014-2015 Issue
How Will You Practice Virtue Without Skill?: Preparing Students to be Virtuous Computer Programmers
Victor Norman, Calvin College (2015).
Abstract:The teaching of computer programming is often thought to be simply the teaching of a useful skill, that of learning the syntax and semantics of a programming language, and learning to solve problems by decomposing them into programmable units. And, while computer programming certainly does require a great deal of skill, is learning a new skill all that we should require of our students?
The remainder of this paper will investigate the relationship between virtues and the act (and art) of computer programming, and how a teacher can encourage the practice of these virtues in programming assignments. The virtues I will investigate are hospitality, humility, integrity, honesty, creativity, stewardship, ad diligence.
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